Reading Time: 2 minutesBy Annette Nellen, Co-Editor of the South-Western Federal Taxation series On June 22, 2020, a bipartisan group of senators introduced the Universal Giving Pandemic Response Act (press release of Senator Lankford). This bill would expand the above-the-line maximum $300 charitable contribution deduction temporarily added by the CARES Act (P.L. 116-136, 3/27/20). As with the […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesEven if you’ve used WebAssign for your past courses, you’ll still have students each semester that need help getting started with the platform. To support you, we asked instructor and Faculty Partner Katie Culler from Surry Community College to share her tips and tricks to help students succeed in WebAssign. Keep reading for 6 peer tips […]
Reading Time: 4 minutesEssie Childers is a Professor of Student Success at Blinn College in Bryan, Texas. Do you feel as if you are building a boat while sailing? Figuratively speaking, many of us are doing just that. You’ve been called upon to move to an online environment, creating a replica of your face-to-face classes. I teach […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesProfessor Lisa Lawmaster Hess mentions a few tools and techniques that worked for her in her online classes (Seven Things That Worked in My Online Class) and many of them were also discussed here in the Cengage Blog. Here are some articles where we discuss these tools: Tools for Online Teaching Professor Hess prefers an […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesJanet Mizrahi is a continuing lecturer who teaches professional writing at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is also an author at BizCommBuzz. One of the most pressing problems facing colleges during the COVID-19 crisis is retaining students—especially at-risk, low-income or underrepresented students who attend institutions of higher learning to gain social mobility. […]
Reading Time: 7 minutesBy: Steven C. Dilley, Contributor to the South-Western Federal Taxation series Professional sports teams have their players and management under contract, and these player contracts are often traded for other teams’ player contracts. The media refers to these transactions as trades of the players, but they are not, they are trades of the player […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesAuthor: Audrey Wick, a full-time English professor at Blinn College in central Texas To help instructors at all levels prepare for their first fall semester during a pandemic, Cengage hosted the 2020 Back to School Better virtual conference during the summer of 2020. Hundreds of instructors, administrators, Cengage authors and other thought leaders gathered to discuss problems […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesElyse Adler is an Assistant Professor of Information Technology Online learning is something that is new to many faculty and students. When building an online course, it is important to create quality learning experiences for your students, understanding that you may not have the opportunity to interact face-to-face with them throughout the class. With […]
